Pirating new video games is a crime. But there’s long been a rather grey area around the piracy of old games. And when I say old, I don’t mean 2008 old. I mean 1988 old. Sure, the blockbusters turn up on services like Nintendo’s Virtual Console, and original entries in still-running franchises can be bundled…
Reader Adam is rightfully very proud of his new Portal-themed room, which doesn’t just look like a part of the series’ Aperture Science, it acts like it as well. That Cave Johnson portrait? It’s not a print, it’s actually a hand-painted original. That test chamber panel? It’s not just a picture, it lights up, just…
This Valentines Day, let that special someone in your life show them how much you really care, by giving them a card that actually shows they’ll always be #2 behind The Elder Scrolls series. Jemma Salume is the artist behind these adorable cards, which while dabbling in established memes, also go the other way and…
Internet magician Freddie Wong shows why the fire flowers of the Mushroom Kingdom are not the fire flowers of Planet Earth. We simply cannot handle that kind of power in three dimensions. Or with our highly flammable clothing.
Despite the fact almost every games writer I’ve ever spoken with loves the thing, the general public has, so far, not exactly warmed to Sony’s latest handheld video games console. In Japan, sales have been dire. After a strong launch weekend, the Vita now isn’t just being outsold by the 3DS, it’s being outsold by…
Kim Dotcom, the imprisoned mastermind behind busted file-sharing site Megaupload, didn’t just spend his millions on fast jets and yachts. He also liked to visit Hong Kong arcades and make an ass of himself. Reader Des was kind enough to upload and send along these old videos of Dotcom on a trip to Hong Kong,…
Reader Michael has spent over 100 hours putting together this music video, in which the narration from Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s The Dead Flag Blues is played over visuals from Half-Life 2 Impressive stuff.
Two Canadian kids have sent a LEGO minifig boldly where few LEGO minifigs have gone before: into space. While they’re not the first to accomplish the feat, it’s the way they accomplished it that’s awesome. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, aged only 17, built a weather balloon from scratch, even sewing the parachutes that brought…
Dueling Analogs see what it’d be like if some of gaming’s greatest stars had their own corporations. Character Branding [Dueling Analogs]
The Other Brothers is an upcoming game, aimed initially at the iPhone, that’s “a pixelated family fun adventure” featuring stuff like “running, jumping, collecting, racing against the clock…” All of which sounds familiar, but the developers – which include the talents of artist Bjorn Hurri, who we’ve featured on Kotaku previously – promise there’s a…
While there’s still scope for slight delays, Nintendo has tonight eased fears of a drastically staggered release of the Wii U by confirming the new console will be out in all four major territories by Christmas. Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has told Reuters that the Wii U would be out in the US, Europe, Japan…
YouTube user Blitzkrieg1981 has, after spending around 55 hours pausing and examining episodes of the hit TV show The Office, gone and replicated the entire thing as a map in first-person shooter Counter-Strike Fans of the original British series, sorry. This is the American version. Counterstrike Source The Office (TV) map [YouTube, via Reddit]
Well, actually, one does if one is Wes Burt, concept artist at Massive Black, whose recent work for Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online is well worth sharing. We’ve featured Wes’ work before here on Fine Art. If you haven’t seen it, you really should Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video…
Dino D-Day, a multiplayer first-person shooter released on PC last year, never really caught on as a game. Its premise, though – that the forces of the Second World War were able to harness the power of dinosaurs – was great. Something plainly obvious in these incredible promotional/propaganda posters. They don’t need to make sense.…
Watch, as Street Fighter player Desk grabs two arcade sticks, sits down and proceeds to kick his own ass at Street Fighter III: Third Strike Desk plays SF3 Third Strike against himself [Eventhubs]
Sadly, it seems I missed Slacktory’s excellent “What Your Favorite Video Game (Series) Says About You” feature from a few weeks back. Sure, not every one of them is entirely accurate – or even remotely accurate – but the ones it gets right, it gets right. And even the ones it gets wrong can be…
Over the past week, a ton of innocent Battlefield 3 gamers have been wrongly banned from the game, the result of a hack movement protesting the use of (ahem) anti-cheat software. Of interest in the wake of the bans is who, or what, is to blame for the security lapse which allowed them to take…
Deus Ex: Human Revolution not sexy enough for you? It was for me, (I’ve always asked for cereal boxes and cigarette smoke, Adam) but not cosplay photographer chrisfkn, apparently. WARNING: This post may be considered NSFW. I know, that sounds weird, but if you’re at home, you’ll see what I mean. He snapped this photo…
Oh God. As if my Obsessive compulsive problems with Skyrim weren’t bad enough, there’s now the distinct possibility that the game’s quest markers could start turning up on the door to my garage and crapper. Etsy seller hollygreengeekcraft has turned the game’s quest icons into pixellated, real-world items, ready to be hung or slung from…
So, we’ve heard from a source that the next Xbox may feature some kind of anti-used games technology. When you first read that, your first instinct was probably to think it’s either bullshit or the worst idea a video game company has ever had. It is, I believe, neither. In fact, if it ends up…
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